Re: FVWM: fvwm - porting patches from mvwm

2014-08-19 Thread Michael Treibton
On 18 August 2014 15:39, Dominik Vogt dominik.v...@gmx.de wrote: The TODO is just the foundation of the new project. It lists a lot of very important infrastructure changes that are actually very un-sexy for users. Yes, they do look boring, i am sorry to say this but it is what i think.

Re: FVWM: fvwm - porting patches from mvwm

2014-08-19 Thread Michael . Grosser
Gesendet: Dienstag, 19. August 2014 um 12:53 Uhr Von: Martin Cermak marti...@gmail.com An: Michael Treibton mtreib...@googlemail.com Cc: fvwm fvwm@fvwm.org Betreff: Re: FVWM: fvwm - porting patches from mvwm On Tue 2014-08-19 10:09 , Michael Treibton wrote: But then why can't

Re: FVWM: fvwm - porting patches from mvwm

2014-08-18 Thread Michael Treibton
On 18 August 2014 05:50, Dan Espen des...@verizon.net wrote: Brian bvamund...@yahoo.com writes: On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 15:25:43 +0100 Michael Treibton mtreib...@googlemail.com wrote: On 15 August 2014 21:05, Dominik Vogt dominik.v...@gmx.de wrote: I'll start a new mail thread about parsing

Re: FVWM: fvwm - porting patches from mvwm

2014-08-18 Thread Dan Espen
Thomas Adam tho...@fvwm.org writes: On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 12:37:37PM +0100, Michael Treibton wrote: On 18 August 2014 05:50, Dan Espen des...@verizon.net wrote: Brian bvamund...@yahoo.com writes: On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 15:25:43 +0100 Michael Treibton mtreib...@googlemail.com wrote:

Re: FVWM: fvwm - porting patches from mvwm

2014-08-18 Thread Dominik Vogt
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 09:32:11AM -0400, Dan Espen wrote: I haven't examined mvwm all that closely. At the moment, mvwm is mostly fvwm with a lot of old and obscure features removed and some changes of repository layout. I had assumed that the mvwm work would eventually fold back into Fvwm.

Re: FVWM: fvwm - porting patches from mvwm

2014-08-18 Thread Dan Espen
Dominik Vogt dominik.v...@gmx.de writes: On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 09:32:11AM -0400, Dan Espen wrote: I haven't examined mvwm all that closely. At the moment, mvwm is mostly fvwm with a lot of old and obscure features removed and some changes of repository layout. I had assumed that the mvwm

Re: FVWM: fvwm - porting patches from mvwm

2014-08-18 Thread Dan Espen
Dominik Vogt dominik.v...@gmx.de writes: On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 11:25:51AM -0400, Dan Espen wrote: Dominik Vogt dominik.v...@gmx.de writes: I just did something similar for a work project. But I didn't have a lifetime, so I just implemented the table driven parser for the commands I was

Re: FVWM: fvwm - porting patches from mvwm

2014-08-18 Thread Dominik Vogt
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 01:40:33PM +0100, Michael Treibton wrote: On 18 August 2014 12:44, Thomas Adam tho...@fvwm.org wrote: Is this perhaps not clear enough? I appreciate the enthusiasm, but this groundwork is really important before we can move forward. Unless there's anyone else who

Re: FVWM: fvwm - porting patches from mvwm

2014-08-18 Thread Dominik Vogt
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 12:39:51PM -0400, Dan Espen wrote: Dominik Vogt dominik.v...@gmx.de writes: It works perfectly for me too. But I wish it was easier to introduce new features, and I'm still dreaming about some kind of database approach to window configuration where you can just

Re: FVWM: fvwm - porting patches from mvwm

2014-08-17 Thread Michael Treibton
On 15 August 2014 21:05, Dominik Vogt dominik.v...@gmx.de wrote: I'll start a new mail thread about parsing with the prefix REWRITE: in a minute. In the mean time I've created a github user id 'domivogt' and cloned the mvwm repository and would be happy if you gave me push access so that I

Re: FVWM: fvwm - porting patches from mvwm

2014-08-17 Thread Brian
On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 15:25:43 +0100 Michael Treibton mtreib...@googlemail.com wrote: On 15 August 2014 21:05, Dominik Vogt dominik.v...@gmx.de wrote: I'll start a new mail thread about parsing with the prefix REWRITE: in a minute. In the mean time I've created a github user id 'domivogt'

Re: FVWM: fvwm - porting patches from mvwm

2014-08-17 Thread Dan Espen
Brian bvamund...@yahoo.com writes: On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 15:25:43 +0100 Michael Treibton mtreib...@googlemail.com wrote: On 15 August 2014 21:05, Dominik Vogt dominik.v...@gmx.de wrote: I'll start a new mail thread about parsing with the prefix REWRITE: in a minute. In the mean time

Re: FVWM: fvwm - porting patches from mvwm

2014-08-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 12:24:03AM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: * The mvwm name is not set in stone, it was just a crappy name from me differentiate it; so I'm not that hung-up on it. If it sticks, that's fine, if not, fvwm3, or something else suits me. Or even twm Thomas's Window manager

Re: FVWM: fvwm - porting patches from mvwm

2014-08-15 Thread Thomas Adam
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 08:03:23AM +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote: I think I've noted this above, but to be clear, the relationship is that fvwm continues as it is at the moment, and people are free to work on it, commit to it, fix bugs, etc. With mvwm, it's a way for us to try out completely

Re: FVWM: fvwm - porting patches from mvwm

2014-08-15 Thread Dominik Vogt
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 02:37:10PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: P.S.: And I do want a window manager with a reference to cats in its name. ;-) Maybe the 'm' in mvwm could stand for moggy or something then? Maybe as time progresses we'll think of something different. Felinevwm (short:

Re: FVWM: fvwm - porting patches from mvwm

2014-08-15 Thread Thomas Adam
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 09:05:52PM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote: In the mean time I've created a github user id 'domivogt' and cloned the mvwm repository and would be happy if you gave me push access so that I can start to work in topic branches there. OK. AFAICT, I've given you permission to

Re: pages and desks [Re: FVWM: fvwm - porting patches from mvwm]

2014-08-14 Thread Dan Espen
On Thu, 2014-08-14 at 10:52 -0400, Bob Woodside wrote: On 8/14/2014 4:19 AM, Michael Großer wrote: Thomas Adam wrote: Quote: - Does having pages *and* desks make sense anymore? - Just go with pages, which can be named. Please keep in mind that the ability to allow pages *and* desks

Re: pages and desks [Re: FVWM: fvwm - porting patches from mvwm]

2014-08-14 Thread Dominik Vogt
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 04:49:57PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: On 14 August 2014 15:52, Bob Woodside fvwm...@woodsway.com wrote: I should be very upset to see this unique feature dropped. Sure; it was more a consideration of fitting EWMH into this, where that concept of page/desk definitions

Re: FVWM: fvwm - porting patches from mvwm

2014-08-14 Thread Thomas Adam
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 10:15:54PM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 12:51:33AM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: this guy asked about porting mvwm patches to fvwm, and I don't know what to answer. As you know, I've been inactive in fvwm for years, and I even missed your fork.

Re: FVWM: fvwm - porting patches from mvwm

2014-08-13 Thread Dominik Vogt
Hi Thomas, this guy asked about porting mvwm patches to fvwm, and I don't know what to answer. As you know, I've been inactive in fvwm for years, and I even missed your fork. Can you tell me a bit about your project, its goals and what your plans are for the future relation of fvwm and mvwm?

Re: FVWM: fvwm - porting patches from mvwm

2014-08-13 Thread Thomas Adam
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 10:02:00PM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote: Hi Thomas, Hi Dominik, this guy asked about porting mvwm patches to fvwm, and I don't know what to answer. As you know, I've been inactive in fvwm for years, and I even missed your fork. Can you tell me a bit about your

FVWM: fvwm - porting patches from mvwm

2014-08-02 Thread Michael Treibton
Hi, I've been trying to port some patches from mvwm, which is the clean-up effort of another person who uses fvwm. The one I'm interested in is a change to libs/FScreen.h to introduce separate monitor support, which as I can understand it, makes each screen separate with its own set of desks and